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The Sporting News

| July 14, 2003 | Miller, Stuart | COPYRIGHT 2003 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

To help you do right by your team--not to mention yourself--while at a game, Fanscape checked with two experts at opposite ends of the spectrum: Peter Post, director of the Emily Post Institute, and lawyer Robin Ficker, the most famous heckler in NBA history.

Post takes the high road: Booing had calls is fine, but stay positive. "Keep your standards as high as you can," he says. "The guy five rows away could be the guy you have a business meeting with next week."

Ficker, on the other hand, has dressed as a waitress to taunt Vernon Maxwell about a restaurant scrap, read aloud embarrassing passages from Phil Jackson's book near the Bulls' bench and sang distorted versions of Shaquille O'Neal's rap lyrics. This isn't the ballet, and Ficker believes to be an effective sixth ...

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